What do societies that practice sororate do if the deceased wife does not have a sister available for her surviving husband to marry?

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They provide a close female relative as a substitute.

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What does Clifford Geertz mean by saying that "culture is like a novel"?

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Mutations in are much more critical

a. non-coding regions b. structural genes c. introns d. RNA

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How are the four subfields of U.S. anthropology unified?

A. The subfields really are not unified; their grouping into one discipline is a historical accident. B. Each subfield studies the human capacity for language. C. Each subfield studies human biological variability. D. Each subfield studies human variation through time and space. E. Each subfield studies human genetic variation through time and space.

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What are the five main forces of evolutionary change? How do they affect the gene frequencies of a population?

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